on-board grapgics.v. graphic cards

[Guest damor]

After having my system rebuilt ( what my pocket money could would let me do ) I now have an ASROCK MOTHERBOARD, with what I think is a NVIDIA GFORCE 6100 onboard graphics card. Am I correct in this assumption? If correct would I be better off with a seperate card. I dont seem to have much of a problem except for occational "sticking" during playback. could someone recommend a good card not too expensive?

Thanks.

Dave

[Ken Cox]

Dave

get this freebie

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

run it and it will tell you all about your system

then if somebody asks you will have an idea of what you have

ken

[Guest damor]

Hey Ken,

Thanks for that one! I have found that my guess wuz right.

(GeForce 6100 display adapter) Do I need a "graphic card" or video card. I'm confused

Dave

[alrobin]

Dave,

They are one in the same. It seems that the main critical requirement in a video (graphics) card is the amount of on-board video RAM (128 Mb seems to be a minimum requirement, but 256 Mb would be better).

[Guest damor]

Thanks for the info Al. I'm on the case and looking round

Cheers.

Dave.

[Igor]

Al,

A little correction, 128 MB enough for ideally smooth playback of Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects.

If don't use slides like 3400x2200 8 MPix and larger.